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After the presidential election drubbing their candidate took, the hand writing is on the wall. Get back to being the “Party of Lincoln,” or at least the party of Eisenhower who signed the Civil Rights act of 1957 (“We like Ike”) – that is, if you are looking to attract Americans that actually look like America.

At this point, it would behoove the Grand Old Party to – at the very least – be the party of Governor Chris Christie.

At the risk of Black folks being “owned” by the Democratic Party, please reconsider your “eat your own” cannibalistic attacks as exhibited against former Fla. Gov. Charlie Crist and poor former U.S. Sen. Olympia Snow for daring to represent moderate and centrist ideologies within the party.

Instead of casting aspersions against a “dyed in the wool” conservative like MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough and calling him a “RINO” (Republican in Name Only), they should man up and quit cowering to the “Jim Crownyism” of Rush Limbaugh.

Their other option is to face a future of being the party of old, angry, White guys yelling out “She’s a Liar,” to President Hillary Clinton from the Joe Wilson section during Hillary’s inauguration acceptance speech.

Truth be told, the GOP can prop up dudes like Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal or a reissue of Jeb Bush speaking perfect Spanish all they want but as long as the fringe speaks for the whole, the Republican Party will only be a bump in the road of a presidential parade if Hillary decides to put on her pantsuit and get back in the game.

At this rate, the GOP will have trouble getting ahead of Gov. Deval Patrick for POTUS, which we might add, looks pretty good from where we’re sitting. And just in case Donald Trump is concerned, Deval Patrick is from the Southside of Chicago and can trace his family back to Kentucky during the slave era, but hey, why let the truth stop you from throwing out a perfectly good birther conspiracy.

To the Republican Party, do yourselves a favor and toss the Tea Party overboard before it’s too late.